Yes - Morey likes to have flexibility to make moves. Although I suppose we knew that PRIOR to the cut, sooooo???
would've like to have seen livingston back up lin..could've brought some vet experience and he looked good in the preseason. wish him the best in his future endeavors..sucks that his career ended up this way
Marcus Morris had to stay for the trade. We should only refer to him as "Mild Asset" from here on forward.
Keeping Livingston would be the better basketball move for right now, they must have cut him for flexibility. He was easily my favorite to be the 2nd string PG.
I had the same feeling. Livingston may not become a star, but the intangibles, maturity and leadership (plus peace of mind if Lin goes down for any length of time) he brings to the second unit is worth the fiscal burden. Cook serves the same purpose as Douglas, except without the defense.
i like livingston.sad that he's waived.oh well at least smith looks like he's staying. good luck to all of these guys.
Perhaps the Rockets can sell Douglas's contract for cheap and re-sign Livingston. Then we will have a real back-up PG while Machado develops fangs with the Vipers.
Smith is hear to stay! Shocked about keeping Livingston over Machado though. I don't know why they say Livingston over Douglas, we knew he was here to stay. My guess is they don't want to really push the ball and Machado is perfect to run the break like Lowry did in 09 with the second unit.
Livingston had to be cut. With this team it didn't make sense at 6'7 for him to be on the roster and not a power forward.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The Rockets have cut Shaun Livingston (inexplicably), Jon Brockman, JaJuan Johnson, and Gary Forbes. Toney Douglas lives...?</p>— Eye on Basketball (@EyeOnBasketball) <a href="https://twitter.com/EyeOnBasketball/status/263049236785016833" data-datetime="2012-10-29T22:46:39+00:00">October 29, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Keeping Daequan Cook over either makes even less sense, if only the cuts were based on baskeball reasons instead of fiscal ones.
i'm mad that JuJuan Johnson and Livingston gone, but I'm more than happy that they kept Cole Aldrich, Greg Smith, and Machado. I really don't understand why it took them so long to waive John Brockman though, when they could have cut him around the same time they waived Jon Lueueuer. Don't understand why they kept Brian Cook when Gary Forbes was probably a better version of Brian Cook.
